Explore your values. Part 4, Exercise 4.
You used your imagination in the first week, followed the breadcrumbs trail in the second, brought a shovel in the third, and now you need a dictionary!
If you’re new here, hello and welcome! This is part 4 of the Values Series, in which I share my coaching practice’s values and give you one exercise a week to create or update yours.
Work through parts 1, 2 and 3, and then come back here!
Care to Impact Value #4
Before getting to the exercise, I’m going to share the third Care to Impact value with you.
Rebuilding
We stay curious, educate ourselves, and challenge our assumptions. We share our learnings and unlearnings to challenge the status quo and dismantle systems of oppression. While we unlearn and dismantle, we also create and build to allow for change, regeneration, and evolution to happen.
Craft Your Values – Exercise #4
Step 1
Take one of the values you listed in Exercise #1 and review your stories, experiences, and whys about it.
Step 2
Notice the words that catch your attention or the ones that are recurring. Circle or highlight them, then write them in a separate list.
Step 3
Look at your list, play with the words, their synonyms, and their associations, and then choose a word to represent the value you’re exploring.
Step 4
Repeat the process for each value.
My word for today’s Care to Impact value
When I wrote today’s value, I was clear about what it meant to me, but I wasn’t sure about the word. The first words that came to me were unlearning and dismantling, but I felt they didn’t convey the whole meaning.
I ended up choosing “Rebuilding” because it has a positive connotation. It brings a generating force into the picture. Also, it implies you’re not starting from scratch; something happened before, and you are ready to acknowledge it and move forward by unlearning or integrating it. It holds both the destructive and the constructive phases of a cycle.
That’s it for today! Next week, you’ll need some more words.
With care,
Giada
🗂️ Open Tabs
Stuff I kept thinking about or still open in my browser
💌 Thanks to Nick Hornby —a writer whose novels I devoured in my late teens— and the Substack Reads he curated last week, I found Death & Birds, and I’m in awe.
The author, Chloe Hope, writes deeply inspiring essays weaving in her experience as an End-Of-Life Doula and carer for baby birds at a Wildlife Rescue center. My awe is for the marvelous blend of what she writes about with how she writes it. See for yourself:
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2 responses to “Find powerful words for your values”
Ohhh! Love the feeling of finding just the right word 🙂
Words are your element, after all!